{"id":277231,"date":"2025-11-22T12:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/277231\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T12:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:45:12","slug":"photographer-captures-pictures-of-emperor-penguins-in-the-antarctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/277231\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer captures pictures of emperor penguins in the Antarctic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A British wildlife photographer has captured the cutest <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/09\/25\/lifestyle\/meet-pesto-the-49-pound-baby-penguin-going-viral-online\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">penguin babies<\/a> since Happy Feet.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Goldstein spent time with a colony of Emperor penguins while guiding in the Antarctic this month.<\/p>\n<p>His pictures include youngsters nestled in the warmth of caring adults.<\/p>\n<p>Paul said: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/15\/world-news\/lawmakers-take-action-to-protect-penguins-trapped-at-aquarium\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Penguins<\/a> have bewitched me for 25 years but the \u2018Royal\u2019 ones are what seduces me the most. Kings may be far more numerous, but nothing can touch both the beauty and rarity of the Emperor penguin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 16,000 strong colony of Snow Hill Island, in terms of polar travel, is the crown jewels, but it is very early in the Antarctic season, but this early November window is the only time to see their tiny grey chicks.<\/p>\n<p>A wildlife photographer took photos of baby penguins while guiding in the Antarctic. Paul Goldstein \/ SWNS<\/p>\n<p>Young penguins nestled in the warmth of caring adults. Paul Goldstein \/ SWNS<\/p>\n<p>Emperor penguins of Snow Hill Island, Antarctica, in November. Paul Goldstein \/ SWNS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPenguins have bewitched me for 25 years but the \u2018Royal\u2019 ones are what seduces me the most,\u201d photographer Paul Goldstein said. Courtesy Paul Goldstein \/ SWNS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 16,000 strong colony of Snow Hill Island, in terms of polar travel, is the crown jewels,\u201d Goldstein said. Paul Goldstein \/ SWNS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI loathe humanising wildlife, it is rare a documentary gets this right, Happy Feet was a notable exception.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis however was thousands of times better than that fabled cartoon. And the chicks are undeniably cute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo spend a day with this colony is beyond adjectives, many said it was the \u2018best day of their lives\u2019, I\u2019m unsurprised. Nothing is left anywhere on this remote sparkling outpost, it is a pristine ecological area, like the whole of Antarctica and this sensitive quest does nothing to alter that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Classic animated <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2011\/11\/18\/manic-penguins-are-ice-grating\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">film Happy Feet <\/a>(2006) is about Mumble, an Emperor penguin who cannot sing like the others but uses tap dancing to find his place and save his colony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A British wildlife photographer has captured the cutest penguin babies since Happy Feet. Paul Goldstein spent time with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2851,113398,104569,6487,90,56,54,55,4407,231],"class_list":["post-277231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-cute-animals","tag-penguins","tag-photography","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}